Thanks to all who responded to my question abt the field rotation.
I think the scope was not well aligned because I used the diagonal. I
usually do 2-star wif known site... havent checked the accuracy of the built
in bubble level yet.
The diagonal (the one supplied wif the 8"LX200) though, is badly out of
collimation, there is an image shift of abt 1/3 of the 77x FOV introduced by
the diag, I checked before.
Is there an easy way to collimate it?
Actually, I opened it up before, but not to collimate, just to try and clean
the prism. it was wedged wif some triangles of paper at the sides... (oh,
and it says "china" below the word meade)
thanks!



>John Hopper:
The>other possibility which comes to mind is that the eyepiece you did the
>alignment with and the camera adapter you are using aren't centered on the
>same point.
>
>The LX200 can track very accurately in alt-az mode if accurately 2-star
>aligned. The point it is tracking on will show no trail and no rotation,
with
>everything else rotating around it.

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